In a PBS program last night focusing on a number of notable examples of American architecture, one of the buildings featured was the Ford Motor Co. assembly plant in Highland Park, MI. This was Henry Fords 1st facility designed to implement his ideas of an industrial assembly line. I found this notable because the architect Henry Ford commissioned to design the project, Albert Kahn, was a German-American Jew (the son of a rabbi, no less). Considering Henry Fords well-known and outspoken anti-Semitism I found this a curious selection. I wonder if any historians or biographers have written about this.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:52:34 +0000
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